Intel Corporation today reported full-year revenue of $53.3 billion, operating income of $14.6 billion, net income of $11.0 billion and EPS of $2.13. The company generated approximately $18.9 billion in cash from operations, paid dividends of $4.4 billion, and used $4.8 billion to repurchase 191 million shares of stock.

For the fourth quarter, Intel posted revenue of $13.5 billion, operating income of $3.2 billion, net income of $2.5 billion and EPS of 48 cents. The company generated approximately $6 billion in cash from operations, paid dividends of $1.1 billion and used $1.0 billion to repurchase 47 million shares of stock.

"The fourth quarter played out largely as expected as we continued to execute through a challenging environment," said Paul Otellini, Intel president and CEO. "We made tremendous progress across the business in 2012 as we entered the market for smartphones and tablets, worked with our partners to reinvent the PC, and drove continued innovation and growth in the data center. As we enter 2013, our strong product pipeline has us well positioned to bring a new wave of Intel innovations across the spectrum of computing."

Full-Year 2012 Key Financial Information and Business Unit Trends

● PC Client Group had revenue of $34.3 billion, down 3 percent from 2011.
● Data Center Group had revenue of $10.7 billion, up 6 percent from 2011.
● Other Intel architecture group had revenue of $4.4 billion, down 13 percent from 2011.

Q4 Key Financial Information and Business Unit Trends

● PC Client Group revenue of $8.5 billion, down 1.5 percent sequentially and down 6 percent year-over-year.
● Data Center Group revenue of $2.8 billion, up 7 percent sequentially and up 4 percent year-over-year.
● Other Intel architecture group revenue of $1.0 billion, down 14 percent sequentially and down 7 percent year-over-year.
● Gross margin of 58 percent, 1.0 percentage point above the midpoint of the company's expectation of 57 percent.
● R&D plus MG&A spending $4.6 billion, in line with the company's expectation of approximately $4.5 billion.
● Tax rate of 23 percent, below the company's expectation of approximately 27 percent.

Business Outlook

Intel's Business Outlook does not include the potential impact of any business combinations, asset acquisitions, divestitures or other investments that may be completed after Jan. 17.

Not bad. It not good either if you consider bow the PC industry is sort of shrinking. AMD should be fine, there APU's have been selling very well, and as long as they stop with the delays and finally release stuff on time, they will grow.

I was going to make a comment of how they could afford to reduce the price of the CPUs so I could buy one.
Then I remembered that they are a company, and the exist solely to make a profit.

Silly me.

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To be fair the have been giving more and more value for the same price. You can pick up a CPU for under £100 which will give you more than acceptable fps in all games you play and in the next year or two, something which is not so true 5 years ago.